Dale Carnegie

While the movie is about a professor at Carnegie Mellon University there are a limited number of scenes that actually take place in the classroom. This movie contains drug abuse, parties, and out of control situations that are based within the framework of a university, but have nothing to do with…

Life is like a jarring mountain. Life will make you come across many curveballs and you will need to hit back. Randy Pausch repeatedly shows how he never gave up through the various aspects of his life in which he struggled. He always reached to places people have not and proved them wrong. This is very important millions of other people aiming to accomplish something prodigious. In the Last Lecture, Randy Pausch tries to convince us to believe that adversities happen and when they do, we must…

academic test that he and his academic team preformed. All of the studies that he quoted related directly to the subject and backed up his argument with a sound logical appeal. For example, one of the studies done, “To test that, we did an experiment on Carnegie Mellon University campus. We asked students who were walking by to participate in a study, and we took a shot with a webcam, and we asked them to fill out a survey on a laptop. While they were filling out the survey, we uploaded their…

APPROVAL OF JIM PATRINOS TO WARHOL BOARD- SHIRY • Dmitri Shiry welcomes the board to the last board meeting of 2016. • The Andy Warhol Museum board has been aggressively moving forward with respect to identifying new candidates for the Warhol board. • The Nominating Committee has identified a handful of individuals that are entering into the beginning processes, though some are further along than others. • The Nominating Committee would like to present the candidate Jim Patrinos to the…

I believe this book relates to this class because, like this class Mr. Pausch shows us that we can speak openly about death and work through any issues we may have related to it. For example, in his book he spoke about how his cancer diagnosis had given him the time to have important, open conversations with his wife that he would not have been able to have if he had died abruptly. He also spoke about how well she was coping and how she was doing due to having these open conversations. Like his…

South African politician, Nelson Mandela once said, “Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” Randy Pausch was a college professor, who unfortunately passed away from pancreatic cancer. Randy’s parents gave him a wonderful childhood, in return, he had a lot of success. An abundance of children today dream of having a childhood like Randy Pausch’s. When Randy was a child, he had freedoms that children today do not get to encounter. His parents would encourage him to paint on…

The premise of this speech is to cover everything you would want to say if you were hypothetically dying and more specificly whatlessons and life experiences Randy Pausch wants to convey to his children . Randy Pausch starts with the “elephant in the room”, Pausch’s diagnosis of terminal cancer serves as an emotional backdrop for this lecture, slightly using ethos persuasive nature to attract the audience’s attention. In addition to revealing some of life’s important lessons, Pausch’s speech…

Ever since the industrial revolution, the world has been involved in a constant struggle. This everlasting debate between economic growth and environmental protection has come to light once again with the expansion of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. While fracking was first used in the 1940s, it has not been widespread until recently when it was joined with horizontal drilling (Hoffman, n.d., para. 1). It is a process used to acquire natural gas previously inaccessible with more…

Randy Pausch walks out on stage to deliver the “last lecture” smiling and joking, seemingly, without a care in the world. Little to the audience’s knowledge of the elephant in the room, he is dying. With only three to six months left of good health, Randy is dying of multiple tumors on his lever. Randy displays how people can react to death differently depending on where they are in life, their coping capabilities, and what they find their joy in. Another factor that comes into play is how…

him and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia to be close to his wife’s family, so she would not be completely alone with the kids after he passed away. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and was invited to give a “Last Lecture”. He delivered his “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. He choose to not make it about cancer or the hard times he was currently going through but in his lecture he talked about topics such as…